"Father-in-law, it's not that the son-in-law is trying to hide it from you.

Think about it, you were talking to Yao Shangshu at that time, if the son-in-law suddenly interjected at this time and said that there is no need to look for it, the person you are talking about is me.

When you hear this, you will definitely think in your heart, this kid is too shameless to even dare to admit such a thing.

It's not just me who will lose my face, but also your old man's face. ”

"Don't try to fool me, you stinky boy.

I ask you, even if you refused to admit it at the time, wouldn't you have confessed to me afterwards?

I'm not stupid, I can't tell if it's true or not. ”

"I've thought about things for so long, and even if I tell you any more, I'm just asking you for credit.

Your willingness to marry your baby daughter to your son-in-law is already the biggest reward for your son-in-law.

I am your son-in-law, and you are a family with your father-in-law, where do you need to be so clear between the family.

There are some things I can do, right? ”

Hearing Chi Fei say this, Ning Zhiyuan was a lot less angry.

"Hmph, I won't bother with you this time, next time you dare to hide Lao Tzu's words, Lao Tzu will definitely make you look good."

"Don't dare, don't dare, father-in-law, please drink tea first to dissipate your anger, don't be angry with your juniors." Chi Fei hurriedly poured tea for him.

Ning Zhiyuan glared at him angrily, and then took a sip of the teacup, which was regarded as revealing the matter.

After finally calming Lord Taishan, Chi Fei asked Lu Jing, who was standing aside, "Doctor Lu, why are you here for me?" ”

Lu Jing replied honestly, "Sir, on this trip to the capital, I am preparing to purchase a large number of medicinal materials from the Jiangnan area to return to the northwest to treat the epidemic.

Sir, the plague that broke out at the border this time was ferocious and spread extremely quickly.

So far, nearly a dozen counties have been involved, and tens of thousands of civilians have been infected.

If it is not controlled, it may not be long before it spreads to the vicinity of the capital.

Due to the urgency of the situation and the lack of a better way to prevent the epidemic, I couldn't help but think of you, sir.

You are well-informed, sir, and know many things that have never been seen and unheard.

I can't help but think that if it were you, sir, you might know how to deal with this plague.

For this reason, I went to look for you at the place where you lived, but when I got there, I found that there was no one living there.

I was so anxious that I hurriedly went to the golden shopkeeper to inquire about you, and then I learned that you had become the son-in-law of the handsome and became a family with the handsome.

I was overjoyed in the next day, and hurried to Dashuai here to explain the situation, and wanted to meet you, Mr. in person.

Please don't blame Mr. for not asking about himself, it's really because the situation is urgent, and I can only meet Mr. in this way. ”

After Lu Jing finished speaking, he knelt down directly to Chi Fei and asked for forgiveness.

He knew very well that he was a low-key person, and he didn't want others to know that he was the master who taught him how to refine soju and stitch up his wounds.

Although he had to trouble him because of the urgency of the situation, he still had to pay for the gift.

Chi Fei hurriedly helped him up and said, "Doctor Lu, please don't do this, although Su is not talented, he still knows the priorities."

If it were me, I would probably do the same.

Let's sit down first and have something to say. ”

Ning Zhiyuan also spoke, "Ah Zhen is right, you two should discuss this matter well." ”

Lu Jing bowed respectfully to Chi Fei again before sitting down.

Facing Lu Jing's expectant eyes, Chi Fei said with some embarrassment, "Doctor Lu, I already know your intention.

But I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you this time, I really don't know anything about how to treat the plague.

I don't know how to take the pulse, I don't know how to prescribe medicine, I'm a complete layman in terms of medicine, and I really don't know how to treat the plague. ”

Lu Jing still didn't give up and asked, "Sir, although you don't know medical skills, do you know how to deal with the plague?" Just like you taught me how to refine shochu and stitch up wounds. ”

"What I know is just some routine preventive measures, and there is really nothing I can do about patients who have already contracted the epidemic."

"Even if it were, one less person would be infected, one more person would be able to live."

"As far as I know, the best way to prevent this is to quarantine, and you've been doing this for a long time.

For example, locking off villages and county towns where the plague broke out and preventing people from entering or leaving is the most common method of isolation.

If this does not control the spread of the plague, it is necessary to consider whether there are other routes of transmission. ”

"Other routes of transmission? Pls sir, did you think of anything? ”

"Now I don't know anything about the situation of the plague in the north, and I can't make a reasonable judgment at all, everything is just unfounded suspicion, so I can't be sure."

Speaking of this, Chi Fei suddenly remembered the Black Death, which was spread by rats and finally ravaged the whole of Europe. So he immediately asked, "Doctor Lu, tell me first, what kind of plague is breaking out in the northwest now?" Have you ever seen such a disease? ”

"Mr. Hui, there are two main types of plague that have broken out in the northwest, one is the diarrhea that makes people vomit and diarrhea, and the other is the sores that make people have a high fever and finally pustules and various inflammations on the skin."

"Sores disease?"

"Yes, it's mostly about diarrhea and sores.

To be honest, there is still a way to cure the diarrhea, but there is really nothing we can do about it.

Moreover, the sores spread very quickly, and most patients get this incurable disease.

For patients who have sores, the power of medicine can play very little role, and they can only rely on the patient to survive by himself, and if he can't survive, there is only a dead end.

Compared with the disease of diarrhea, the harm of sores is the most terrible, and it is almost impossible to prevent it. ”

Chi Fei's heart moved, and he asked, "Doctor Lu, can you please tell me in detail what the symptoms of this loose sores are." ”

"Yes, sir.

Patients with loose sores will first develop a fever accompanied by headache, fatigue, and pain in the limbs and lower back.

Three to five days after the onset of the disease, a rash develops on the forehead, cheeks, wrists, arms, trunk, and lower limbs, and then gradually turns into pustules.

At this time, the patient is the most dangerous, not only does the high fever not go away, but also usually has pneumonia, laryngitis and other inflammations, and some even go blind or unconscious, and if it is a pregnant woman, it may also cause a miscarriage. Many patients die at this stage.

The mortality rate of sores is extremely high, especially in children or the elderly and infirm, once infected, it is almost impossible to survive.

Even if they are lucky enough to escape, the patient will become a pockmarked person with a face full of acne pits.

Sores have not appeared once or twice in the northwest, and they have broken out in some remote villages almost every few years.

The only thing we can do to deal with this virulent plague is to lock down the entire affected area and prevent it from spreading.

But this is the first time we have seen such a rapid and widespread spread as this year. ”

Hearing this, Chi Fei couldn't help but have a very bold idea in his heart, this so-called sore-scattering disease can't be smallpox, right?

Although he had never seen smallpox, the plague called Sanshuang that Lu Jing mentioned was indeed very similar to the legendary smallpox.

Especially for people who have been infected with loose sores, they will be left with very obvious acne pits on their faces, which are very similar to smallpox.

In his world, Emperor Kangxi was a person who had smallpox in history, so he was called Kang Mazi in later generations.

Chi Fei turned his head to his father-in-law, Ning Zhiyuan, next to him, and asked, "Father-in-law, what are you going to do if the plague in the northwest continues to spread?" ”

Ning Zhiyuan sighed and said, "Although the northwest is poor and bitter, it is the foundation for our Ning family.

My Ning family has been operating in the northwest for more than 100 years, and even if everyone wants to give up there, I will never abandon it.

In fact, I am already planning to ask the Holy Lord to return to the northwest for disaster relief next month.

The northwest is too important to our Ning family, and it was exchanged for our Ning family's lives for several generations.

If the northwest really becomes a dead land by then, my Ning family can only accompany them to the end. ”

Hearing his father-in-law's words full of firmness and bitterness, Chi Fei finally made a bold decision.

He turned to Ning Zhiyuan and Lu Jing and said, "First of all, I want to state that I really don't know how to treat diarrhea and sores, and I don't know where to start. ”

When Lu Jing heard this, he immediately showed a very disappointed expression.

Ning Zhiyuan, who was listening from the sidelines, felt that it was normal, after all, the little son-in-law was not a doctor, of course he didn't know how to treat the epidemic, and it was an incurable disease like sores.

However, then, they heard Chi Fei continue, "I really don't know how to heal sores, but I know a way to prevent people from dispersing sores, and this method is effective for life." ”

"What do you say? Can you keep people from having sores for life?! Before Lu Jing could react, Ning Zhiyuan suddenly stood up and looked at his little son-in-law with a shocked expression.

Lu Jing, who finally came back to his senses, looked at Chi Fei with surprise and joy. I thought that Mr. was really very human, and he really had a way!

Chi Fei Zhengrong said, "If the sore-scattering disease that broke out in the northwest is indeed the kind of disease I know, then this method can indeed make people unable to disperse sores for life."

But don't be happy so early, I just know that there is this method, and I don't know the specific operation process, let alone whether it will work.

To find out what the results are, you have to go through a lot of experiments, and you have to do experiments on living people.

If my method is wrong, it will only lead to the sacrifice of innocent experimenters, so I am really not sure at all. ”

"You're saying you're going to do experiments on living people to see if your method works?" Ning Zhiyuan looked at him without blinking.

"Yes, father-in-law. And the test subjects cannot be a few people, at least hundreds of test subjects are needed.

Only a large number of experimental sample controls can really confirm whether the method is effective. ”

Ning Zhiyuan suddenly laughed and said, "What's so difficult about this, there are a lot of death row prisoners in the northwest, you can have as many as you want."

As long as the method you said is really effective, let alone hundreds of people, it is worth sacrificing as many death row inmates.

Because it can make the incurable disease of sores extinct in Dawei from now on, saving countless lives.

I dare not say that this achievement has never been achieved before, but it is definitely unprecedented.

Ah Zhen, would you like to go to the northwest with me?

I will report to the Holy One in private tomorrow, and then we will do this together, whether it works out or not, we will do our best. ”

Lu Jing also looked at Chi Fei excitedly, waiting for his reply.

Looking at the eyes of the two full of expectation and trust, Chi Fei's blood couldn't help but be ignited, so he solemnly bowed to his father-in-law and said, "Son-in-law obeys." ”

"Good, good, it's really my good son-in-law. Haha, Lao Tzu really didn't see the wrong person. Ning Zhiyuan patted him on the shoulder very happily and smiled heartily.

Fortunately, Chi Fei has been practicing martial arts for many years and is strong, so he can withstand the alternative praise of Lord Taishan, who is a military general. If he had been replaced by a weak scholar, he would have been broken up a long time ago.

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After coming out of the Zhenguo Mansion, Chi Fei was still thinking about what had just happened.

The method he knew about not dispersing sores, that is, smallpox, was actually inoculating with "cowpox".

Basically, modern people like him with a certain amount of common sense know that the most effective way to prevent smallpox is to get vaccinated against cowpox.

The so-called "cowpox" is actually cow smallpox.

To put it simply, cows, like humans, can get smallpox. It's just that the bovine smallpox virus is much less virulent than the human smallpox virus, and at most it gives people some pustules, and it heals quickly.

The principle of vaccinia vaccination is actually to transmit the less virulent bovine smallpox virus to humans, so that people can obtain antibodies to immunize against smallpox virus under relatively safe conditions, so as to no longer infect human smallpox.

He didn't know about the principle pool, but he really didn't know how to operate it.

One of the most important problems was that he was really not sure that the sores that Lu Jing was talking about were the same plague as the smallpox he knew, and it was possible that they were just infectious diseases with similar symptoms but completely different.

Because in his time, smallpox had long been extinct.

For a modern man like him, this famous and virulent plague was just an infectious disease that remained in history and legend, and he had no idea what smallpox was like when it was sick, so there was no way to compare.

After all, he studied art, not medicine, and he didn't know what smallpox was like, and he was confused about how to vaccinate against cowpox.

In addition to this highly suspected smallpox disease, the diarrhea disease that Dr. Lu mentioned Chi Fei also has a certain eyebrow in his heart.

If he was not mistaken, then the so-called diarrhea should be dysentery.

Dysentery is mainly an intestinal emergency caused by drinking unclean water or eating unclean things.

Moreover, dysentery mostly occurs in spring and summer, which is also similar to the onset time of diarrhea.

The easiest and most effective way to prevent dysentery is to have everyone drink only boiled water, not raw water and unclean food.

As long as the vast majority of people develop this habit, dysentery will naturally be controlled.

Regardless of whether the diarrhea is a dysentery or not, finding a way to make all soldiers and civilians develop the habit of not drinking raw water is in itself an effective way to prevent water-borne infectious diseases.

When he arrives in the northwest, this is also a must-do.

In addition to various uncertainties, Chi Fei also faced another headache.

That's how to explain to his lovely little wife that he and his father-in-law are going to the plague-ridden northern border to do something that he is completely unsure of.

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